Format:
Online-Ressource (x, 316 p)
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24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0816633177
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0816633169
Content:
In this study of four citizens of the African diaspora-American boxer Muhammad Ali, West Indian Marxist critic C. L. R. James, British cultural theorist Stuart Hall, and Jamaican musician Bob Marley-Farred develops a new category of engaged thinker: the vernacular intellectual. He offers a vision of intellectual activity that is as valid in the boxing ring as in academia
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-296) and index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Thinking in the Vernacular; 1. Muhammad Ali, Third World Contender; 2. C. L. R. James, Marginal Intellectual; 3. Stuart Hall, the Scholarship Boy; 4. Bob Marley, Postcolonial Sufferer; Notes; Permissions; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780816633166
Additional Edition:
Print version What's My Name : Black Vernacular Intellectuals
Language:
English
